ELA 7-8 Heroes Unit
- Defining and making a list of Hero examples
- Studying a historical figure recognized as a hero for an act of courage:
- Rosa Parks:
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- PDF excerpt of her story – read the paragraphs and try to summarize each. The challenge with summarizing is to include enough of the main points but not too many of them. Do this for the first 10 paragraphs.
- Understanding Rosa’s story: YouTube video
- Examples of how people were segregated in the United States in the 1950s.
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- Rosa Parks:
Wed Sub Notes – Mrs. Herrem
Here are some links/supports shared with students through Teams for their classes.
Period 1: ELA B10
- A Socrative Comprehension Check from yesterday’s play reading/viewing. Room 252858. A check in of your understanding.
- Watch a 15 minute Instructional Video introducing you to the Obituary writing assignment. You could have someone log-in to the teacher computer and watch it as a group on the Smartboard. The assignment pages are in the back of your Macbeth section.
- Then, I’d like you to read 2 obituary samples:
- One is a comical one of a guy who lived an “interesting” life. If you read this together as a class, it could be comical.
- The second is a more serious, and more similar to the tone/difficulty of the obituary you’ll write – written about someone who died of drug use. Hard to write a celebration of someone’s life when they struggled so much, or like in Macbeth’s case when they hurt so many other people.
- After the instruction and two sample obituaries read, you can begin DRAFTING your ideas in the handout guide. Remember, an obituary is written by a loved one. A family member. You’ll want others to remember the better parts of that person’s life, maybe understand the unique struggles they faced, and their outlook on life.
- You’ll have more writing time coming, but this gives you an idea of what the last assignment involves and some time to start generating ideas. Spoiler – Macbeth is going to die soon!
- Reminder: Some of you need to complete another AR or 2 (or 3). I’ve given you 2 options in the post just before this. There are copies you can grab on the back Bulletin board or ask me for a copy printed for you. These are all due this Friday!
ELA A30:
They’ve got their new/last section of the course to work on. It includes 2 listening activities.
All work is due (except the current section) by this Friday.
Psych 30:
ELA 7-8:
Play the game as many as 2 times and then, either as a group of 3-4 OR divided into groups of 2, write out that narrative storyline plot, including characters, dialogue, point of view, conflict, tone, etc. See what they can complete with the rest of the class period.
Tuesday Sub Post
Hi there,
The links and notes below are the same as what’s been shared with students.
- Read the Scene Summary for the last 2 scenes we read on Friday. Important events happened that I want you to be sure to catch, specifically:
- Act 3 Scene 4 (after the banquet) ends with the Macbeths noticing Macduff refuses to come greet Macbeth as his new King, even though Macbeth has called for Macduff to do so. (It makes them wonder about his loyalty.)
- Act 3 Scene 5:What Hecate says to the witches about how she’ll clean up their mess in meddling with Macbeth
- Act 3 Scene 6: Macduff is in England with Malcolm, the fled son of murdered Duncan. They talk about how Macbeth has benefitted most from the deaths of the King and Banquo and they suspect he is behind both murders.
- Back in your handout, answer the two questions there for Act 2 and Act 3.
- Act 4 is the beginning of the undoing of the anti-hero character, Macbeth. Since I’m not there to help you read out/understand this scene, I have a video version of it for you to watch. You could use your playbook to read along while you view or pause and read the modern version of the script as well. Or you could watch it with subtitles on and then read the Scene Summary here.
ELA A30:
- There’s a podcast to listen to in the section along with a QR Code to it. Here’s the link to the audio as well. It’s called In Their Shoes – recent immigrants to Canada share the types of shoes they were wearing when they arrived in Canada and what it said either about the life they left behind or the life they were seeking in Canada. Listen to 27 minutes worth of this audio.
- There’s also another short audio listening piece – the Day-in-the-Life of a Canadian Immigrant who is studying in school but also working a few jobs to help her family and her make ends meet. It’s 10 minutes long.
All assignments except this section are due by this Friday, 3 days away.
- Watch the video linked here on Globalization – in particular, it tracks how many countries are involved in making/selling a t-shirt in America. You can/should try to take some notes or even jot down main ideas. We’ll review tomorrow (likely).
- Next, here’s a pair/group activity to try:
- In pairs (groups of singles – 3 ppl) make a list of 20 services and/or products you currently use in life that you wouldn’t have access to without globalization – without the interdependence of other countries also involved in the production of those services/products. List them and explain the country/area of the world you think is also involved in their development.
Example: Cell phone – it wouldn’t be available to us without manufacturing from Asian countries. - Once the small pairs have made their list of 20, make a list on one of the whiteboards (the one nearest the plants?) and as other small pairs add their list, only add new products/services. Don’t rewrite Phones down. See how many new products/services the different pairs were able to generate.
- Back in your pair groups, now try to think of 5 resources/products/services Canada generates that we wouldn’t be able to export/sell to other countries without Globalization. If we could only sell within our own borders, how would our development of these resources/products remain – slowed since we’d have a much smaller market of consumers? The same since we’d still have to develop the resources anyway?
Example: Canada’s lumber/timber resource is a main export to other countries in the world without large land masses and so many trees. What would happen to our timber industry if we couldn’t sell out of Canada? Thoughts? - Share your list of 5 Canadian resources/products/services on the whiteboard in the same way – with additional pairs only adding examples not listed.
- In pairs (groups of singles – 3 ppl) make a list of 20 services and/or products you currently use in life that you wouldn’t have access to without globalization – without the interdependence of other countries also involved in the production of those services/products. List them and explain the country/area of the world you think is also involved in their development.
ELA B10 B8.1 Formal Letter Writing
You are about to write a formal Letter of Complaint. You’re becoming more and more an adult and will be responsible for change in your society. This assignment asks you to pick a topic that you think needs some adjustment or change made and write a persuasive and informed letter to someone specific in a position to create that change.
Examples of social change topics other students have written about include:
- Writing to the Town of Kenaston to argue against their ban of certain dog breeds
- Writing to the Saskatchewan Minister of Highways to complain with detailed points the poor upkeep of Highway 11.
- Writing to the Sask Minister of Land about the maintenance of neighbours changing water routes that affect other people.
- Writing to the Minister of Health (Federal) or Sask Premier to convince them to allow better access to reproductive health centers, like for abortions or the Plan B Pill
- Write to the School Division to argue for different use of staffing at your school.
- Write to your School Division to argue for/against neutral bathrooms being added to the schools.
- Write to your school Principal about the school dress code. Or to the School Community Council about it, asking for change.
- Write to your Principal or School Division asking for better maintenance of the school’s field and/or ball diamond.
- Write to your Principal or School Division asking for funding/development of outdoor seating in the courtyard, like added permanent seating and shade sails. Or write regarding the poor maintenance of the outdoor sports facilities – the ball diamond, jump pits, basketball area, etc.
- Write to your Principal to argue against the Hat Rule in school.
- Write to the Sask government regarding their restrictions on tinted windows of vehicles.
- Write to the Division or principal regarding the plan to develop gender neutral bathrooms in the schools within the division.
Big Note or Warning: If you pick a topic you feel emotionally strong about, what some students fall into doing is write a venting letter about it. If it isn’t grounded in logic, reasoned, or convincing points it may likely do poorly, marks-wise. Write without emotional passion and your recipient may be more inclined to take seriously your concerns.
Added Advice:
The idea is to develop an argument of some substance that can convince the reader there is something withheld or affecting a fair amount of people. Writing about something that affects mostly just yourself and expressing how it makes you feel is likely not to get a response, and you should be writing with the purpose or intent to receive an actionable response. Try to include the many ways your topic actually impacts people in real ways, not just felt ways.
And… there’s a sample mentor letter included in the handout. Follow it to the letter format-wise.
07 Studying Ideologies
There have been different philosophical thinkers who contributed ideas about the Social Contract countries should adopt, meaning how much power is given to an authority figure, what type of authority, and how many rights do citizens give up in order to gain freedom in their society.
Now we’ll transition to look at the different Established Ideologies – the established approaches to governing, like Conservatism and Liberalism.
What are the goals of the different Canadian parties?
Liberalism Kahoot Review (Link)
Shared Google Doc – Liberalism Individual Research
ELA A30 Thursday Lesson – videos (Ms. MacAuley)
ELA B10 Analytical Essay Development – supports
You’re working to develop the analytical essay after reading a novel independently. Here are a few of the supports available to you to hopefully help you with that.
Sample Essay – Waldner written – A Monster Calls essay. I used the same paragraph outlines to develop an essay too. See if this helps you.
Psych 30 2.1 Technology for fetal testing
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – class novel study
If you’ve missed being in class for some of our readings, you can read/listen to the chapters from here.
Complete the following Activities/Handouts as you read through the Chapters.
- Chapter 1: (Printed) Socrative Comprehension Questions
- Chapter 2: Handout Questions & Themes Overview
- Chapters 3-4: Handout Descriptive Writing Activity Personal View vs Bruno’s View, Character Analysis Questions (first pass answers in Blue font, second pass answers in Green font)
- Chapter 5: Teams Reading Fluency Assessment to complete (in ELA 7-8 Channel)
Sample Descriptive Writing: View from my window
I sometimes like to sit in the dark and look out the window that stands tall along my front door. In the dark is when the soft, yellow fairy lights glow wound along and through the black spindles of my front steps. There’s a city light down the street a little, so it also lets me see the outlines of objects on the street, whether they’re cars of neighbours or the silhouette of someone walking their dog past my house. The steps beyond the front door are wide set, so there’s an easy view to the whole front yard, which usually offers a beautiful patterned view of tall grasses, round shrubs with soft green petals guarding the spikey branches, the round outline of the grass as it winds in and out in a loop, the dark brown of the new earth dirt on its outside with perennials and large flat stones to protect it. This view represents a calm mood to me, because whether it’s in the cool or warm seasons I can sit out there